Re: Ho to deactivate a PS3 that has the YLOD?

Try hairdrying it. Wrap your PS3 with 2 hand towels, but leave the back part (fans) open. Grab a hair dryer and start putting air into the PS3 from the back vents for about 15. The dryer must be at top speed, top power and it has to lay about 2cm away from the back vent. Also, do swift, smooth and slow moves, from side to side of the vents.

Re: Ho to deactivate a PS3 that has the YLOD?

Originally Posted by Thorzilla

Try hairdrying it. Wrap your PS3 with 2 hand towels, but leave the back part (fans) open. Grab a hair dryer and start putting air into the PS3 from the back vents for about 15. The dryer must be at top speed, top power and it has to lay about 2cm away from the back vent. Also, do swift, smooth and slow moves, from side to side of the vents.

GAH!! Don't do THIS!!!! lol No offense Thorzilla, but that is scary. Heat going all over the place is never good for electronics. I suggest using Gilksy's YLOD fix. It is easy to do and works like a charm. I just repaired mine using it last night. Here is the link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U70SgRDVcBo It is better to do heat ONLY to the areas that need it, which are the GPU and CPU chips on the board. Anything else gets hot...you might cause more damage. Good luck bud!

Re: Ho to deactivate a PS3 that has the YLOD?

Originally Posted by BrokenKeyboard

I thought you could ring Sony and ask them to deactivate your PlayStation Network account?

Sony won't do it, something to do with fraud. Although I can't really understand where they'r coming from, if my PS3 was working and had been stolen, the thieves would just deactivate it themselves, I'm ringing Sony for help because its broken! Still, no dice from Sony!

Re: Ho to deactivate a PS3 that has the YLOD?

Originally Posted by unicron7

GAH!! Don't do THIS!!!! lol No offense Thorzilla, but that is scary. Heat going all over the place is never good for electronics.

I'm not saying his method is correct or will work, but as far as I know heat is the only thing that will get the wireless on my crappy (HP) laptop running when it decides it doesn't want to work. I run something that takes up 100% CPU until my laptop gets noticeably warm, then restart and usually my little orange "wireless is off" light turns to that blue "it's going to work" colour I like to see. Just thought I'd throw that out there as an example of a seemingly stupid fix that actually works (in my case).

Re: Ho to deactivate a PS3 that has the YLOD?

First off, I thought you were able to have about 5 active PS3 accounts??

My first PS3 got the YLOD last week (60gb launch phat), so I went out and brought a 250gb slim.

I've managed to download all my previous content no problem, but I've just gone to download a film and its telling me I have have to deactivate my previous account and then activate the slim.

Does anyone know how I can do this???

Go to http://www.playstation.com and login with your PSN account. When logged in, click on my account. There you'll see your ps3 system, which you can remove from your PSN account. You can also add one too (or a ps2 / psp for that matter). It's as simple as that.

Re: Ho to deactivate a PS3 that has the YLOD?

Originally Posted by Toorok

Go to http://www.playstation.com and login with your PSN account. When logged in, click on my account. There you'll see your ps3 system, which you can remove from your PSN account. You can also add one too (or a ps2 / psp for that matter). It's as simple as that.

Cheers!

I've already tried that, my old console wasn't even listed on there, but I still added the new one but no good, still won't let me authorise it for video

Re: Ho to deactivate a PS3 that has the YLOD?

First off, I thought you were able to have about 5 active PS3 accounts??

My first PS3 got the YLOD last week (60gb launch phat), so I went out and brought a 250gb slim.

I've managed to download all my previous content no problem, but I've just gone to download a film and its telling me I have have to deactivate my previous account and then activate the slim.

Does anyone know how I can do this???

This is what i did when i had this problem & it worked for me...

I recently ran into a video deactivation problem myself.....old 20GB launch console YLOD last May & I was able to use the heat gun trick to salvage my newly purchased (1hr. into) Infamous game. I thought nothing of deactivating anything ( i've never gameshared & am only on my 2nd PS3). Until i got my GOW3 Ultimate edition last week, and went to claim my unearthing the legend documentary from the PS Store. It slammed me w/ the good old "Video is already activated on another console error".
It took 2 emails to CS but it appears they will do it . I think you just have to get the right person. Here's my email & what they replied.......

Customer03/22/2010 11:28 AM I am contacting you to get an old (broken) Launch PS3 deactivated....i can no longer run it long enough to do so myself due to YLOD crash error after approx. 15 seconds. I would appreciate it if you could deactivate this PS3 & would be more than happy to provide serial# or anything else needed to deactivate it.Level 1: PS3™ systemProduct Level 2: ServiceCategory Level 1: How to Get ServiceDate Created: 03/22/2010 11:28 AMLast Updated: 03/23/2010 11:18 AM

-RESPONSE-
Hello ,

We apologize for any inconvenience regarding your PlayStation(R)Network account activation. We understand how frustrating it can be when you are unable to access video content on your PLAYSTATION(R)3 computer entertainment system. Your request for video deactivation has been processed under Service Request Number 1-251083124. We ask that you please allow 24-48 hours for deactivation of your previous console. Please note, if you have reached the pre-determined limit for game activations (5), you must manually deactivate one of the other PlayStation(R)3 computer entertainment systems from your account.

Again, we apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your patience in this matter.

I did the deactivation online only a couple months ago. If I remember right I couldn't deactivate the specific console but it was a mass deactivation of all my devices that can only be performed once every 6 months (?). I just had to go back to the devices I do use and re-activate through XMB/Vita-settings

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